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What is the adjective for calcific?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verb calcify which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

calcified
  1. Hardened from the deposit of calcium salts.
  2. Made unchanging or inflexible.
  3. Synonyms:
      4. petrified, ossified, rocklike, fossilised, fossilized, hardened, lapidified, fixed, rigidified, solidified, hard, unyielding, solid, adamant, firm, tough, inflexible, obdurate, rocky, unbreakable, indestructible, impenetrable, rock-hard, obstinate, unbending, uncompromising, stubborn, wilful, dogged, intransigent, implacable, immovable, headstrong, pertinacious, mulish, perverse, opinionated, unrelenting, willful, pigheaded, hardheaded, bullheaded, adamantine, inconvincible, pat, rigid, frozen, démodé, ingrained, indurated … more
calcific
  1. Of or pertaining to calcification
  2. Of or pertaining to the formation of eggshells in birds and reptiles
  3. Examples:
      4. “The splenic artery was encased by tumor, although there was no intraluminal invasion, and the artery showed severe calcific atherosclerosis.”
      “Radiographs may show calcific deposits in the extensor aponeurosis or spurring but are frequently normal.”
      “The early lesions of calcific degenerative disease resemble atheroma of the coronary artery.”
calciotropic
  1. (biochemistry) Describing any material (especially a hormone) that is involved in the regulation of calcium in the blood and in bone
calciferous
  1. Yielding or containing calcium, calcium carbonate or calcite.
  2. Synonyms:
      3. calcigerous
  3. Examples:
      4. “Chardonnay vines tend to bud early in the season and prefer calciferous soils that contain marl.”
      “The calcium ions added to waste material by the calciferous glands are important because they enrich the soil which would otherwise be lacking.”
      “The stroma itself was myxomatous with numerous calciferous bodies and occasional ganglion cells in clusters.”
calcic
  1. of, pertaining to, or derived from calcium or lime
  2. Examples:
      3. “Tauride dykes contain less calcic plagioclase than their host cumulates, like the Kinik ophiolites.”
      “Due to its hydraulicity, it undertakes a setting more quick than the calcic lime and its strengths are superior.”
      “Dolerite dykes that cut the peridotite show chilled margins and local metasomatic calcic alteration.”
calcian
  1. (mineralogy) Describing minerals that contain calcium
calcitic
  1. Pertaining to, resembling, or composed of calcite
calciuretic
  1. (pathology) Relating to, or causing calciuresis
calcitropic
  1. Alternative form of calciotropic
calcinotic
  1. Of or relating to calcinosis.
calciumlike
  1. (chemistry) Resembling calcium.
calcifying
  1. present participle of calcify
  2. Synonyms:
      3. solidifying, hardening, setting, fossilising, fossilizing, petrifying, turning into stone, ossifying, congealing, freezing, stiffening, crystallizing, thickening, coagulating, concreting, densifying, clotting, caking, indurating, firming, jelling, curdling, cementing, settling, amalgamating, fixing, precipitating, crystallising, firming up, fossilifying, fossilating, tempering, annealing, rigidifying, mineralizing, lapidifying, toughening, bracing, harshening, fortifying, girding, inspissating, gelatinizing, buttressing, strengthening, vitrifying, turning to stone, compacting, becoming solid, vulcanizing … more
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